Street checks

Montreal police are to announce a new policy on street checks today, July 8, 2020, months after a damning independent report found evidence of systemic bias linked to race in who they decide to stop.

An independent report released on Monday, October 7, 2019, has found evidence that Montreal police show "systemic bias" in conducting street checks, with people from certain racialized groups much more likely than others to be stopped.

Street checks by Halifax-area police have had a "disproportionate and negative" impact on the African Nova Scotia community, according to a new report that found black males were nine times more likely to be stopped by police than the general population.

The RCMP says there will be no formal apology to Halifax's Black communities for its heavy use of street checks, despite the Halifax regional police having done so almost two years ago.